http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/pm-modi-on-rape-cases-correct-sons-don-t-question-daughters-576261
Certainly sounds good. Brings to mind a conversation I had with a friend yesterday. She has a daughter who studies in a premier professional institute in Bangalore. The girl lives in a hostel and is doing her post-graduation. Just as we were sitting and chatting, she received a call from the daughter asking her to call the warden of the hostel immediately and inform her that the girl was coming home for the weekend.
I was shocked. The girl is 22 – the average age of the hostelites doing post-graduation in the institute. Legally speaking, she is an adult. She is well above the age of consent. It is not as if the hostel would take any tangible responsibility if something “wrong” were to happen to her during day time or within the confines of the hostel. Nothing they do could change anything in any case. So how can they curtail her freedom of movement to the extent of her going home to her mother (just a few kms from the hostel btw) over the weekend and insist she be back in the hostel by 9 pm?
Anyone could call up and inform the warden that her daughter was coming home. How are they going to check out the veracity each and every time? It is not as if those girls who are determined to have a “good time” don’t despite all these restrictions.
Shame that we don’t treat our daughters as anything more than a piece of flesh to be kept “protected” from the big bad wolves while we allow those wolves to roam free anytime of day or night.
Mr. Modi, can you do anything to forbid hostels from imprisoning our daughters?
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